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[Eric Blank]

Manga?

[penguinofhonor]

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[TD1]

I got my first tattoo and it's healing all right. So exciting!

Oh, what of?

A scenary: sea, fir-trees, stones, sun... It's a bracelet on the left upper-arm. I like it so much. No regrets. Beautiful.

Oh? That sounds lovely. Is it on the photo thread? I've been brought up in a household where tattoos are frowned upon, but I think they can look very nice if done tastefully. I don't think I have the self confidence or courage to get one, mind.

[Bumblebee]

Oh? That sounds lovely. Is it on the photo thread? I've been brought up in a household where tattoos are frowned upon, but I think they can look very nice if done tastefully. I don't think I have the self confidence or courage to get one, mind.

Not yet. I didn't have time to take a photo, plus it's still swollen, plus I'll have to be wearing bandage for two or three more days, I think. Can't wait to take a snap of it myself - there's no other way I can see the back part(
As for the courage - I had first to find a serious reason why it was better to do it than to do not, and put it into words. Don't understand people who do it to show off or because it's "stylish". And I didn't know anyone with a tattoo until recently, too.

[Bumblebee]

I am learning to crochet! It's pretty cool! I am very slowly transforming a giant ball of yarn into a scarf with just my hands.

Wooo-hoo! Crochet-bro! Beware, you will not be able to stop. Scarf is a beginning of a long and interesting way.

[Comrade P.]

I am learning to crochet! It's pretty cool! I am very slowly transforming a giant ball of yarn into a scarf with just my hands.

Wooo-hoo! Crochet-bro! Beware, you will not be able to stop. Scarf is a beginning of a long and interesting way.

[Sirus]

Hoping to get started on painting some miniatures tomorrow, assuming the weather cooperates. Haven't done any painting in over two years. Cautiously excited

Oh? What of?

Custom 3D-printed heroes. A berserker, a spear-wielding soldier, a mage, a bard...not gonna try to paint them all at once of course. My two-plus-year-old-dwarf turned out great, but that might have been a tremendous fluke that I'll never replicate

[Arx]

New phone! Relatively low-end chunkyish Nokia, but the sound quality is deific for a cellphone so it's all good.

Also, my brother and I shared a cheese and mushroom waffle and an Oreo and icecream waffle. So delicious.

[Bauglir]

I am really liking Dragon's Dogma. It is to Skyrim what Skyrim was to Dragon Age, at least for me - a shift in emphasis toward adding engaging gameplay at the expense of story. So, where Skyrim had you dodging about shooting and stabbing dragons instead of clicking on them, Dragon's Dogma has you climbing on them and doing all that fun stuff that only exists in kill camera shots. Meanwhile, where Skyrim at least tried to have a coherent main plotline off which all the exploration dangled, Dragon's Dogma does not seem to give even the wateriest of shits about things like characterization, pacing, or even basic things like telling you there's a romance mechanic. Which, overall, I actually kind of enjoy because it means they're mostly not trying to balance the impossible load of "open world quest completion smorgasbord" and "linear epic adventure of fate and destiny" - which is good because every time it makes anything like a token effort at the latter, it flubs it in a way that's as terrible as it is generic.

if it gets mod support it'll probably replace skyrim as my generic fantasy timesink

[KingofstarrySkies]

The above is why I adored the game when it came out on Console. Unfortunately, the PC version doesn't have the glorious intro song.

[Tack]

Hoping to get started on painting some miniatures tomorrow, assuming the weather cooperates. Haven't done any painting in over two years. Cautiously excited

Oh? What of?

Custom 3D-printed heroes. A berserker, a spear-wielding soldier, a mage, a bard...not gonna try to paint them all at once of course. My two-plus-year-old-dwarf turned out great, but that might have been a tremendous fluke that I'll never replicate

Siiick.
Jelly.

[Avis-Mergulus]

The idea that the gameplay of Skyrim was more engaging than that of DA:O is something I have trouble fitting my head around. Of course, Skyrim had that exploration element which was what I found really fun about it. But to say that Skyrim's combat was more interesting than DA's would be really strange, given that Skyrim's combat is basically the same as in every game that gives you a melee weapon ever. Which is, ironically, clicking things while moving around a bit sometimes. Now Dragon Age, especially on the harder difficulty, really made me think about what the hell I was doing with each of my party members, because otherwise the aforementioned dragon would absolutely wipe the floor with my ass, unlike in Skyrim.

It's like, I found both of those games very fun in general (I prefer DA, but Skyrim isn't far behind). But if we're talking about gameplay specifically, the idea that Skyrim had more engaging gameplay is non-trivial to me. I don't even necessarily disagree, it's just... non-trivial.

[Bauglir]

Eh, Skyrim was better as a simulator. DA did offer greater strategic considerations, but the fun I get out of those is less than the visceral thrill of tactics in a game where I have to dodge and time my attacks and that sort of thing. Even if the latter is a game that is much more exploitable, so that it also winds up being easier and less varied. I mean, yeah, at the end of the day it's all "Click on what you want to die", but eh.

Different things for different folks, I suppose.

[SalmonGod]

Still waiting for a game like Skyrim to implement a combat system similar to or on par with Mount & Blade's.  It would be fucking nirvana.  Proof that this can be done better, and an example of how is right out there.  Don't know why no one will follow that lead.

[Putnam]

Duke Patrick's mod for Skyrim does that. It's hardcore as fuck, though, the dude made it as realistic as he could get it, which means a good, fast hit with a mace on the head means you're out. It also damages through godmode, incidentally.